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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Seren del Grappa The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Seren del Grappa
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Seren del Grappa A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Seren del Grappa
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Seren del Grappa We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Seren del Grappa
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Seren del Grappa "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Seren del Grappa
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Seren del Grappa "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Seren del Grappa "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Seren del Grappa
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Seren del Grappa "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Seren del Grappa
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Seren del Grappa Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Seren del Grappa
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Seren del Grappa Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Seren del Grappa
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Seren del Grappa "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Seren del Grappa
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Seren del Grappa Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Seren del Grappa
